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An American jazz critic once said that Wes Montgomery was the "best thing that could happen to a guitar". Grand words, one might say quickly racking one's brains to come up with other great names. But after only a few minutes of listening to this live recording made in 1965 at the Half Note in New York, you will forget your brain-storming and concentrate on the unfused performance of this brilliant guitarist and the superb Wynton Kelly Trio.
The very first number on this album, which despite its tongue-in-cheek title "No Blues" is full of the spirit of black jazz, makes plain Montgomery's unique talents. Highly-polished arching melodies, sharply-dissonant chordal runs and free improvisation displaying brilliant technique are the characteristics of this wizard of the "semi-acoustic" guitar. The quartet's thrilling mixture of Blues, Latin and Soul is as fresh, modern and compelling as it was 30 years ago. This is music which gets down to the nitty-gritty, is always cool and straight with no fuss or frills getting in the way: the message comes over clearly - and it makes the blood surge through one's veins! The almost tangible atmosphere of the recording venue and the pure sound quality further enhance this collector's item and guarantee a jazz happening of the very highest order.

INFORMATION TAKEN FROM YAMAMOTO SOUND CRAFT
HA-02 is the headphone amplifier which uses a vacuum tube as an amplification element. Although output power is small, it has the output terminal for speakers and it can also sound a speaker with small volume as BGM.
Only one right and left are using each the miniature vacuum tube 408A of a Western Electric for an amplification tube. Although this WE408A is a vacuum tube of a vintage, it is one of the produced vacuum tubes, and since it was used abundantly for telefon equipment, there are no worries about a spare tube even now. It seems that it was used for various uses in order to often tend to use characteristics, although this vacuum tube is originally designed as an object for high frequency amplification. When it was used for the data of a Western Electric as a small output tube, there was description that about 300mW output power was obtained. When we manufactured the amplifier for headphone based on this description, we decided to produce commercially, since the good result was obtained.

It is the optimal amplifier for a direction to use both headphone and a speaker.
HA-03 is the unique amplifier which designed headphone, of course aiming at the amplifier which can enjoy itself by the best sound quality also with the speaker.
The amplifier which can generally enjoy both headphone and a speaker in the optimal state is made difficult.
In this machine, I conquered the difficulty by using the highly efficient vacuum tube C3m with one-step composition.
As for vacuum tube amplifier, the simplicity of the composition appears in sound.
In the case of this machine, the charm which simplifies the composition to a limit and the vacuum tube has been pulled out to the maximum extent.
Since it is simple, freshness sound and music can be enjoyed.

Excerpt from 6moons review: The CA-04 line level preamplifier is based on the same circuit as the CA-03L full-function preamplifier with phono stage, but contains slightly different component parts choices to hot-rod performance while the chassis sports a Japanese Cherry fascia with African Ebony knobs. Brian adds that "in terms of sonics, the CA-04 sounds almost identical to the CA-03L, although it may be a tad more neutral. You'd really have to do lots of back-and-forth comparisons to hear the difference." The CA-04 uses hand-selected Telefunken 6AK5W (5654) pentodes chosen for their superior tone when used in this preamplifier's zero NFB circuit. Note this detail: The capacitors are mounted in African Ebony cases filled with a special Yamamoto epoxy blend claimed to give improved tone over conventionally mounted capacitors. Gain is 16dB and the frequency response ± 0.5dB from 10Hz - 150 KHz.

Drama is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released on 18 August 1980 by Atlantic Records. It is their only album to feature Trevor Horn as lead vocalist, following the departure of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in March 1980 after unsuccessful recording sessions for a new album in Paris and London. Horn was joined by keyboardist Geoff Downes, his partner in the new wave band The Buggles. Drama was recorded in a short amount of time as a tour was already booked prior to the change in personnel. It marked a departure in the band's musical direction with songs more accessible and aggressive, and featuring the use of modern keyboards and a vocoder.